Metallic tie and rail-fastener.



c. E. MoLANE.

' METALLIC TIE AND RAIL PASTENBB.

APPLIOATIOH FILED FEB. 9, 1911. 989,992.;

Patented Apr. 18, 1911'.

IT ssss azwika To all whom it may concern:

CYRUS EB'EN MCLANE, OF LISBON, OHIO.

METALLIC TIE AND RAIL-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 1911.

Application filed February 9, 1911. Serial No. 607,521.

Be it known that I, CYRUS EBEN MCLANE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Lisbon, in the county of Columbiana and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Metallic Ties and RaiLFasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to metallic ties and rail fasteners and joints, and the objects of the invention are to provide a novel metallic tie for supporting the confronting ends of the rails constituting a track, and to furnish a tie with means in a manner as will be hereinafter set forth whereby a rail can be secured to the tie or the confronting ends of two rails.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a metallic tie that can be easily and quickly installed in a roadbed and properly tamped by unskilled labor, and to obviate the necessity of using bolts and nuts as a fastening means for the confronting ends of rails, also spikes for securing rails to a tie.

Further objects of the invention are to provide a metallic tie and rail fastener consisting of comparatively few parts easily and quickly assembled, and to accomplish the above results by a tie that is simple in construction, durable and highly efficient for the purposes for which it is intended.

With these and such other objects in view as may hereinafter appear, the invention consists of the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts to be presently described in detail and then claimed.

Reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein there is illustrated a preferred embodiment of the invention, but it is to be understood that the structural elements thereof are susceptible to such changes as fall within the scope of the appended claim.

In the drawing :Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tie in accordance with this invention, Fig. 2 is a plan of the same showing the rail joint in horizontal section, Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the tie partly broken away, Fig. 1 is a cross sectional view taken on the line IV-IV of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a similar view taken on the line VV of Fig. 3.

A metallic tie in accordance with this invention comprises a channel-shaped outer section 1 and a channel-shaped inner section 2, these sections corresponding to the length of an ordinary tie and the section 2 being of a cross sectional area that it will snugly fit and slide in the outer section 1. The outer section 1 has the side walls thereof, intermediate the ends, provided with slots or openings 3, and adapted to register with these slots or openings are similar slots or openings 4 in the side walls of the inner section, 2. When these slots or openings register, a tapering split key 5 is adapted to be driven into said slots or openings and the split end of the key spread or clenched, as at 6 whereby the sections will be locked together.

In order that the use of the metallic tie in connection with a rail fastener and a rail joint can be fully understood, I have illustrated one end of the tie as designed as an ordinary rail fastener, and the opposite end thereof for a rail oint, it being a well known fact that in railway construction it is not conducive to perfect safety to locate two rail joints upon one tie, the joints of one rail generally being staggered with relation to the joints of the other rail.

The inner tie section 2 adjacent to the end thereof has the upper edges supporting a rail plate 7, and this rail plate has the outer longitudinal edges thereof provided with an overhanging flange 8 adapted to engage the outer base flange 9 of a rail 10. The rail plate 7 can be brazed or otherwise connected to the upper edges of the inner tie sections 2.

The outer tie section 1 adjacent to the end thereof is provided with an inner fastener 11 having an overhanging flange 12 adapted to engage the inner base flange 13 of the rail 10, and this inner fastener can be secured to the upper edges of the tie section 1 similar to the rail plate or outer fastener 7.

It is obvious that when the section 2 is shifted within the section 1 that the inner and outer fasteners will grip and brace the base flanges 9 and 13 of the rail 10, and when the key 5 is driven in position, said sections and the fasteners thereof are firmly held.

Reference will now be had to the opposite end of the tie where there is shown an outer fastener 7 having a vertical flange or splice bar 14 provided with sockets 15. The inner section 2 of the tie has an inner fastener 16 having a vertical flange or splice bar 17 provided with sockets 18, said sockets being arranged adjacent to the ends of the splice bars 17 and confronting the sockets 15. In these sockets are placed pins 15 adapted to extend through openings 19 provided thereand that the outer fastener 7 and the inner rail joint fastener 16 are moved With the inner tie section 2. It is this movement of the tie sections that permits of rails being easily and quickly positioned and clamped to the tie, whereby the rails cannot become longitudinally or vertically displaced.

The metallic structure can be made of durable metal and of such sizes to accommodate the present type of rails.

What I claim is In a metallic tie, rail and rail joint, an outer channel-shaped section, an inner chan- .nelshaped section slidably mounted in said outer section, an outer fastener carried by the upper edges of said inner'section adjacent to one end thereof, an inner fastener carried by said section adjacent to the opposite end thereof and provided with a vertical flange having sockets, an inner fastener carried by said outer section and adapted to cooperate With the first mentioned outer section in retaining a rail upon one end of said tie, an outer fastener carried by said outer section and provided With a vertical flange having sockets, pins adapted to engage in the socketsof said fasteners to retain the confronting ends of rails upon said tie, and means including a key adapted to lock said sections together.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

MAX H. SRoLovITz, MARY B. CUNNINGHAM.

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Washington, D. 0.- 

